Imagine being so full of yourself that you use your own URL schema.

@Vake93 Yes. This is called "deeplinking". You assign your own scheme in an app. When you define that scheme, you can execute that application from another application.

Easy to be done in Android, needs so many configuration on iOS.

In this case, it seems like a webview. It might not be open the app correctly, rather be done with Intents.

@dangerzone Well, that backfired on you, didn't it?

@MonkeyParade didn't backfire at all. Even if this is a method in which to launch a particular app, the fact that someone decided using the url schema to accomplish this is fucking hilariously bad. You can already see examples of this in iOS development and even in this WebView, which basically emulating a browser, yet still can't perform the task accurately. Not to mention the enormous security flaws.

See "measuring the insecurity of deep links" by Virginia Tech.

It definitely backfired. Using custom schemes is pretty normal and common